Red, Hot and Blue (film)

Red, Hot and Blue

Directed by	John Farrow
Produced by	Robert Fellows
Written by	Charles Lederer (story) Hagar Wilde John Farrow
Starring	Betty Hutton Victor Mature
Music by	Frank Loesser (songs)
Cinematography	Daniel L. Fapp
Edited by	Eda Warren
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release dates	September 5, 1949 (1949-09-05)
Running time	84 minujtes
Country	United States
Language	English

Red, Hot and Blue is a 1949 musical comedy film starring Betty Hutton as an actress who gets mixed up with gangsters and murder. Frank Loesser wrote the songs and also acted in the film.

The film has no connection to Cole Porter's play of the same name.

Plot

Hair-Do Lempke snatches actress Eleanor Collier, believing her to be a witness to the murder of his gangster boss. Eleanor tells him her story.

While rooming with girlfriends Sandra and No-No and desperately trying to become a star, Eleanor resists the marriage proposals of theater director Danny James, her boyfriend. Her agent Charlie Baxter sets her up on a date with wealthy Alex Creek, who owns a baseball team and occasionally sponsors the careers of starlets. Alex's wife objects, dumping water on Eleanor.

A bigshot, Bunny Harris, is introduced to Eleanor and might help her career. While in his apartment, though, Bunny is gunned down and Eleanor learns from Hair-Do to her surprise that Bunny was a crook. She holds the bad guys at bay until Danny rides to the rescue.

Cast

Betty Hutton as Eleanor Collier
Victor Mature as Danny James
William Demarest as Charlie Baxter
June Havoc as Sandra
Jane Nigh as Angelica Roseanne
Frank Loesser as Hair-do Lempke
William Talman as Bunny Harris
Art Smith as Laddie Corwin
Raymond Walburn as Alex Ryan Creek
Onslow Stevens as Captain Allen
Barry Kelley as Lieutenant Gorman
Jack Kruschen as Steve
Joseph Vitale as Carr
Percy Helton as Mr. Perkins
Ernö Verebes as Waiter
Philip Van Zandt as Louie
Henry Guttman as Frankie
Don Shelton as Hamlet
Herschel Daugherty as Laertes
Dorothy Abbott as The Queen
Julia Faye as Julia
John Marchak as Guard

External links

Red, Hot and Blue at the Internet Movie Database
Red, Hot and Blue at the TCM Movie Database
Red, Hot and Blue at AllMovie

Films directed by John Farrow

The Spectacle Maker (1934)
Tarzan Escapes (1936)
Men in Exile (1937)
West of Shanghai (1937)
She Loved a Fireman (1937)
Comet Over Broadway (1938)
Broadway Musketeers (1938)
Little Miss Thoroughbred (1938)
The Invisible Menace (1938)
My Bill (1938)
Reno (1939)
Sorority House (1939)
Five Came Back (1939)
Full Confession (1939)
Women in the Wind (1939)
The Saint Strikes Back (1939)
A Bill of Divorcement (1940)
Married and in Love (1940)
Wake Island (1942)
Commandos Strike at Dawn (1942)
China (1943)
The Hitler Gang (1944)
You Came Along (1945)
Two Years Before the Mast (1946)
California (1947)
Blaze of Noon (1947)
Calcutta (1947)
Easy Come, Easy Go (1947)
Beyond Glory (1948)
The Big Clock (1948)
Night Has a Thousand Eyes (1948)
Red, Hot and Blue (1949)
Alias Nick Beal (1949)
Where Danger Lives (1950)
Copper Canyon (1950)
Submarine Command (1951)
His Kind of Woman (1951)
Ride, Vaquero! (1953)
Hondo (1953)
Plunder of the Sun (1953)
Botany Bay (1953)
A Bullet Is Waiting (1954)
The Sea Chase (1955)
Back from Eternity (1956)
The Unholy Wife (1957)
John Paul Jones (1959)

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